Новости за 29.10.2017

Veterans of Ukraine’s volunteer Donbas Battalion and other units late on Oct. 28 started a blockade of President Petro Poroshenko’s businesses. They said at a protest tent camp near the Verkhovna Rada that this was a response to Poroshenko’s failure to comply with their ultimatum for him to submit by late Oct. 27 a bill […]

BEIRUT – At least 11 civilians were killed and a school day violently interrupted amid intensive Syrian government shelling of a rebel-held enclave north of the capital Damascus Sunday, sending panicked kindergarten children scurrying for shelter, opposition activists reported. Read more here

Official Washington was abuzz this weekend over reports that a grand jury has charged at least one person stemming from the US probe of Russia’s attempts to tilt the 2016 presidential elections in Donald Trump’s favor. Read more here

Former President of Georgia, ex-head of the Odesa Regional State Administration, leader of the new political party Mikheil Saakashvili appealed the decree of President Petro Poroshenko on the termination of Ukrainian citizenship. He said this at the rally on October 29, Ukrainian News reports. Read more here

Ukraine’s top defense industry managers have siphoned almost Hr 100 million ($3.8 million) in funds allocated to buy spare parts for armored vehicles, according to an investigation conducted by the Nashi Groshi TV program. According to the investigation, in 2014-2015, Kyiv Armored Plant, a part of the Ukraine’s state-owned defense industry concern UkrOboronProm, was ordered […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill into law to amend the Law of Ukraine on Accounting and Financial Reporting aimed at improving some provisions, according to Chairperson of the parliament’s tax and customs policy committee Nina Yuzhanina. Read more here

The FBI’s investigation of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, includes a keen focus on a series of suspicious wire transfers in which offshore companies linked to Manafort moved more than $3 million all over the globe between 2012 and 2013. Read more here

Ukrainian border guards in the capital airport “Kyiv” detained the citizen of Russia, who was in the international wanted list. This was reported by the press service of the state border service. Read more here

PRYMORSKE — In the idle heat, a hundred eyes stare out from the tangle of fishing nets, the fish drying like tiny slivers of tinfoil under a stifling sun. Plastic buckets, battered hulls and lengths of knotted rope litter an otherwise empty beach. A few wooden dinghies bob on the sea’s flat, mercury surface; white […]

Joanne Rowling’s Lumos Foundation will help implement the reform of orphanages in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region under a pilot project, according to the Ukrainian media company NewWest Media. Read more here

Today in Odesa about 40 people attempted to raid and to seize part of the territory of  military facility, which is the property of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This was reported by the head of Armed Forces press center  Roman Yurchylo in the comments to 112 Ukraine TV channel. Read more here

Near the Verkhovna Rada gathered the largest number of people over the last week. Read more here

OSLO – The wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter missing off Svalbard, Norway, since October 26 has been located, Norway’s rescue coordination center said on Sunday. Read more here

Social media companies are focusing on whether Russia manipulated their ad platforms to influence the 2016 election, but some lawmakers and experts think that the real problem lies in content posted by fake users and Russian-linked bots. Read more here

On October 27 law enforcers detained 17 people who had narcotic substances in one of the nightclubs in Kyiv. This is reported by the National Police press cener in Kyiv. Read more here

A new China-Europe freight train route was launched Sunday in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to China’s official press agency Xinhua. Read more here

Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year’s election — despite the many other ways that fake messages and bogus accounts spread on the dark side of social media. Read more here

On October 28, the militants shelled residential blocks of Avdiivka with grenade launchers, in which one of the houses was damaged, the Ukrainian Army HQ reported on Facebook. Read more here

BARCELONA — Crowds began gathering in central Barcelona Sunday morning ahead of what was expected to be a major demonstration in favor of Spain’s unity, two days after a Catalan independence declaration led to the regional government’s dismissal by Spain. Read more here

Today local elections are held in 201 districts of Ukraine, according to the press service of the Central Election Committee of Ukraine. Read more here

The United States is “actively considering” supplying lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, according to Kurt Volker, U.S. special representative for Ukraine negotiations. U.S. State Department envoy Volker says the debate over sending U.S. weapons to Ukraine should not be as controversial as it is, given that Ukraine is simply defending itself. “No-one has any worry […]

The release of two Crimean Tatars from Russian custody this week was a good sign and hopefully means Russia will take positive steps in eastern Ukraine as well, the U.S. special envoy to the Ukraine peace talks said on Saturday. Read more here

Growing up at the court of tsar Nicholas II, Tatiana Botkina’s childhood was one of splendour. Read more here  

YEKATERINBURG – The Russian television presenter Ksenia Sobchak, who has decided to run for presidency in 2018, says that Crimea must hold a new independent referendum. “Russia violated its international obligations, that’s the main starting point. There are Russian people living in Crimea, many of them. (…) We cannot treat them as subjects of geopolitics. […]

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has signed laws on ratification of Ukraine’s intergovernmental agreements with Croatia, Latvia and Turkey on cooperation in investment protection, international transportation and right to work for family members of employees of diplomatic missions. According to the press service of the head of state, Poroshenko signed the law on ratification of an […]